West Hartford Police News

Someone broke a window of a van parked in a driveway on Lexington Road and stole $298 worth of tools.

The theft occurred between Sept. 3 and 13.

* A $262 radio was taken from a car parked at Westfarms mall last week.

The handle had been pulled away from a passenger-side door, police said. The break-in occurred between 9:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Sept. 13.

* Someone took a videocassette recorder and a television from a first-floor apartment in the 400 block of Prospect Avenue last week.

A window had been forced open. The theft occurred between 9 and 11:40 a.m. Sept. 9, police said.

* Police are investigating a robbery in the parking lot of Edwards Super Foods Store on Kane Street. A man was sitting his car at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, counting $240, which he planned to use to buy a money order.

When he left the car, he was accosted by a man who punched him in the face and grabbed the money, police said. The thief fled in a blue Oldsmobile driven by another man.